Nec Corp.
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Services with a 'green'
Insight Though slowed by the economic downturn, NEC Asia is focused on greening its IT and growing its services business, gunning for big contracts such as Singapore's SOE, says CEO Kiyofumi Kusaka.
Tags: Outsourcing, Infrastructure/architecture management, Business applications, Leadership, Personal Computers, Servers, NEC Corp., Security, Mobile, India
Tech builds up at S'pore integrated resort
News Resorts World at Sentosa, which opens in early 2010, contracts Dell for servers. Meanwhile, its appointed partner for ticketing, NEC Asia, forms new alliance.
Tags: Servers, Business applications, Infrastructure/architecture management, NEC Corp., Universal Studios, Dell PowerEdge Server, revenue management, Dell PowerEdge, Server, enterprise server
NEC Asia eyes bigger slice of services pie
News The company's expansion plans include growing headcount, as well as services revenue in Singapore from 10 percent to over 50 percent, says chief exec.
Tags: Services, Business Strategies & Functions, Infrastructure/architecture management, NEC Corp., India, Singapore, Southeast Asia, Hardware, CEO, Fujitsu Ltd.
Agile project management: Estimating the unknown
Techguide Rick Freedman explains why estimation in an agile environment is not as mysterious as many project managers think.
Tags: Project management, IT project management, NEC Corp., Feature, Project, Project Management Institute, Rick, Environment, Carnegie-Mellon University, technique
User stories: The starting point in agile development
Techguide Rick Freedman explains how user stories can help agile developers understand users' expectations. He also discusses the three Cs, user role modeling and epic stories.
Tags: IT project management, Software engineering/development, User Story, NEC Corp., Story, Detail, Development Effort, C, Information Technology, Human Resources Inc.
Intel, NEC team up to flex supercomputing might
News Both companies will jointly develop high-performance computing systems based on Intel processor to extend products to wider audience, say executives.
Tags: Multiprocessor servers, Processors, NEC Corp., Richard Dracott, Intel Corp., Intel Xeon, Chip Company, processor, Supercomputing, supercomputer
Japanese researchers downplay super CPU effort
News Alliance aims to create software standard for multicore chips in devices, including mobile phones and car navigation systems.
Tags: Mobile processors, Processors, NEC Corp., Intel Corp., Embedded System, CPU, Chip Company, API, processor, researcher
APAC HPC users eye solid-state drives
News update Some supercomputing users in the region are trialing flash memory for added boost, says a vendor, but an analyst notes SSDs won't be common "anytime soon".
Tags: Supercomputing, Memory, NEC Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Computing, e-mail, I/O, hard drive, high-performance, flash memory
Asia's 'bright' HPC future will take time
News Region's high-performance computing has promising future but it will take some time for Asia to catch up with the West, industry watchers say.
Tags: Supercomputing, Cloud computing, NEC Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Intel Corp., Region, Asia, India, Australia, Japan
Japanese vendors wage war against slump
News Threats loom from economic pressures and Korean rivals, but Japanese PC and semiconductor players still hang on via job cuts, market exits and consolidation.
Tags: Consumer Technology, Personal Computers, Sales, Mergers, NEC Corp., Supplier, Semiconductor, Asia-Pacific, Spokesperson, Singapore
USB 3.0 is ready to go
News The final specification for so-called SuperSpeed USB has been published by the USB Implementers Forum.
Tags: Components, Hardware, NEC Corp., Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., NVidia Corp., Texas Instruments Inc., Specification, USB Flash Drive, USB
NEC joins the netbook party
News NEC announced last week it had entered the netbook market, with the release of its 8.9-inch Versa N1100 based on Intel's Atom processor.
Tags: Notebooks and tablets, Microsoft Windows, Windows XP, NEC Corp., Intel Corp., Intel Atom, Webcam, RAM, processor, Wi-Fi
IBM, NEC team up on 32nm chip tech
News NEC has signed a multi-year agreement to enroll in the joint-development alliance set up by IBM to work on next-generation 32-nanometer technology.
Tags: Processors, NEC Corp., IBM Corp., Chip, STMicroelectronics, performance, processor, transistor, power consumption, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
Short Take: ST Assembly expects US$20m in sales from NEC deal
News Mainboard-listed ST Assembly Test Services Ltd, Asia's second-biggest chip-testing company, said it expects to generate US$20 million in revenues by the end of 2003 from its deal with Japan's NEC Corp.
Toshiba to make color displays for mobile phones, hand-helds
News Toshiba Corp, the maker of Dynabook notebook computers, said it may begin making flat-panel displays using so-called organic electro-luminescent technology by March 2002 for use in mobile phones and hand-held computers.
